Cannabis News

The HEMP Embassy Headlines are a selection of recent articles from news services and media sources primarily concerning Cannabis issues, the consequences of prohibition and the challenges for law reform. Here are the selected headlines for this week.

Roadside Saliva Drug Testing Advice

February 29, 2016

Roadside Saliva Testing: Defence of “honest and reasonable mistake of fact” It is an offence to drive with THC present in your saliva. Police can stop a driver for no particular reason and require them to provide a saliva sample. If there is any amount of THC found in the sample, the charge is made […]

EMBASSY HEADLINES Issue 191

February 27, 2016

Christmas Island cannabis trials closer after Senate approves new drug laws [ABC] Plans to set up a medicinal cannabis industry on Christmas Island have moved “a big step closer” after the Senate passed historic laws. The company behind the plans, Perth-based AusCann, is already readying itself for the business opportunities presented by the new laws […]

New Medical Cannabis Laws in Australia

February 27, 2016

Cannabis laws clear Australian parliament [Yahoo News 7] On the one-year anniversary of medicinal cannabis campaigner Dan Haslam’s death, parliament has passed laws allowing the cultivation of medicinal cannabis. Senators paid tribute to the tireless efforts of Mr Haslam’s mother, Lucy, who was instrumental in campaigning for change after medicinal cannabis helped her son with […]

Medical Marijuana Hunger Strike in Victoria

February 27, 2016

Heather Gladman and Liam Hotham are facing court on cultivation and possession of cannabis charges. Heather’s on a hunger strike and calling for an amnesty for altruistic growers like her. Watch Heather’s story on the Project on Ten

Drug-Driving Laws In Doubt

February 13, 2016

4 February 2016 Acquittal of man caught drug-driving nine days after smoking cannabis throws NSW drug laws into doubt [ABC] New South Wales’s roadside drug testing laws have been thrown into doubt after a magistrate acquitted a man who tested positive for cannabis he had smoked nine days before he was pulled over. Lismore magistrate David […]